A serviceman and a resident of the town of Shchastya in the Luhansk regionSCHASTIE (LPR), Mar 31In the liberated territories of the LPR, more than 1,500 kilograms of explosives in TNT equivalent were defused, more than a thousand mines, shells and traps were found, Vitaly Dubrovsky, deputy head of the republican Ministry of Emergency Situations, told reporters on Thursday. social and vital facilities.
The head of the LPR visited the liberated city of Shchastia»At first they worked pointwise, looked at the administrative building, and then began to look at the sites, the territory,» Dubrovsky said about the work of the LPR Ministry of Emergency Situations to clear the territory of the thermal power plant in Shchastia, where the Ukrainian national battalions were recently stationed. According to him, on the territory of the station, Ukrainian troops left mines and traps designed primarily to hit people: anti-personnel mines (for example, the POM-2 mine was shown to journalists) and grenades on a «stretch line.» for the manpower that could break through here, our reconnaissance groups were deployed for them,» he clarified. on the outskirts of Kremennaya «For the energy security of the republic, the primary task is to launch the Lugansk thermal power plant. Our sappers work both at the station and along power lines. Since the 24th, about 12 kilometers have passed through the power lines,» he said, adding that the entire territory of the thermal power plant was also examined. «In total, the gray zone of the liberated territory, not only the thermal power plant, was discovered, removed and liquidated thousands of units of explosive objects and traps, devices with a total mass of over 1.5 thousand kilograms in TNT equivalent,» he said. Now the territory of the thermal power plant, he specified, is 80% cleared of mines.
